598 | Democritus said that substances could never be mixed, so atoms are the substances [Democritus, by Aristotle] |
8287 | Earlier Aristotle had objects as primary substances, but later he switched to substantial form [Aristotle, by Lowe] |
12350 | Things are called 'substances' because they are subjects for everything else [Aristotle] |
11299 | Substance [ousia] is the subject of predication and cause [aitia?] of something's existence [Aristotle] |
12060 | Essence (fixed by definition) is also 'ousia', so 'ousia' is both ultimate subject, and a this-thing [Aristotle] |
10941 | A substance is what-it-is-to-be, or the universal, or the genus, or the subject of saying [Aristotle] |
595 | It is matter that turns out to be substance [ousia] [Aristotle] |
11290 | Matter is not substance, because substance needs separability and thisness [Aristotle] |
10959 | The substance is the form dwelling in the object [Aristotle] |
12093 | Substance is unified and universals are diverse, so universals are not substance [Aristotle, by Witt] |
12362 | A thing's substance is its primary cause of being [Aristotle] |
607 | None of the universals can be a substance [Aristotle] |
11233 | In Aristotle, 'proté ousia' is 'primary being', and 'to hupokeimenon' is 'that which lies under' (or 'substance') [Aristotle, by Politis] |
12079 | Substance is distinct being because of its unity [Aristotle, by Witt] |
5013 | A substance needs nothing else in order to exist [Descartes] |
4813 | Substance is that of which an independent conception can be formed [Spinoza] |
21857 | Substance is the power of self-actualisation [Spinoza, by Lord] |
7945 | We think of substance as experienced qualities plus a presumed substratum of support [Locke] |
12712 | Substance is that which can act [Leibniz] |
12756 | Substance is a force for acting and being acted upon [Leibniz] |
11855 | Substances cannot be bare, but have activity as their essence [Leibniz] |
13091 | Leibnizian substances add concept, law, force, form and soul [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
7561 | Substances are essentially active [Leibniz, by Jolley] |
3959 | There is no other substance, in a strict sense, than spirit [Berkeley] |
6729 | Material substance is just general existence which can have properties [Berkeley] |
21451 | All appearances need substance, as that which persists through change [Kant] |
5564 | Substance must exist, as the persisting substratum of the process of change [Kant] |
22628 | Substance has to exist, with no intrinsic qualities or relations [McTaggart] |
12047 | We refer to persisting substances, in perception and in thought, and they aid understanding [Wiggins] |
7712 | On substances, Leibniz emphasises unity, Spinoza independence, Locke relations to qualities [Lowe] |
16128 | A 'substance' is an object which doesn't depend for existence on other objects [Lowe] |
13069 | The general assumption is that substances cannot possibly be non-substances [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
12358 | Substance is a principle and a kind of cause [Wedin] |
7930 | The bundle theory of substance implies the identity of indiscernibles [Macdonald,C] |
19347 | Substance needs independence, unity, and stability (for individuation); also it is a subject, for predicates [Perkins] |
15391 | A substance is, roughly, a basic being or subject at the foundation of reality [Robb] |
18865 | Substance must have two properties: individuation, and property-bearing [Tallant] |